International Conference on Parietal Lobe Function
Artis Zoo, Amsterdam | 20-21 September 2010
Satellite Symposium
on Parietal Lobe Function
Key note addresses by Mick Rugg and Masud Husain and contributions by Jon Kaas, Matthew Rushworth, Ivan Toni, Claudio Galletti, Laurel Buxbaum, Jody Culham and Vincent Walsh.
No registration fee: first come, first served.
This conference is funded by a European Science Foundation grant for the European Research Network for Investigating Human Sensorimotor Function in Health and Disease.
The programme
The aim of this symposium is to bring together experts from the fields of neurophysiology, neuroimaging, and (neuro)psychology in order to define the research agenda for parietal lobe function for the next decade.
The challenge is to disentangle the different functions assigned to the same anatomical regions (i.e. what does the posterior parietal lobe do?), the role of the different subareas within a single processing stream (i.e. what is the functional architecture of the somatosensory system?), and the role of the different research methodologies.
The programme focuses on four major issues (Physiology and Anatomy, Visuomotor Function, Somatosensory Function, and Time, Space and Numbers).
Location
The conference will be held in conference rooms of Artis Zoo (Artis parkzalen). Address is: Plantage Middenlaan 41a – 43, 1018 DC Amsterdam. Note that the entrance to the conference rooms is different to that of the main zoo! See also this website here. The conference will be held in the ‘koningszaal’ and ‘tijgerzaal’.
A whole week of neuroscience in Amsterdam
From 22 till 24 September 2010 Amsterdam will host the 2nd Congress of the Federation for European Societies of Neuropsychology. (ESN) You are kindly invited to attend both conferences. More information on the ESN congress can be found on their website: fesn.eu
